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> if you control the ideas of your software, looking at the code itself is suboptimal and often pointless. This requires developers to have absolute and unconditional Trust in the LLM. It's not easy to trust it completely to the point of completely ignoring the implementation details of the code. In one of Salvatore's discussions, he mentioned that he hasn't even opened a single file of DS4. This is a courageous choi…
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You build your outcome conditions and specifications in code as well. And you iterate on them too. I'm not talking about waterfall development. It's something else. You can spend a day just prototyping, spiking, experimenting, and then use that to refine what the outcome can be, doing more work that way than you could in a week before. I think it's crazy to think that software development processes aren't going to ch…
Reaching the correct outcome is easy. That’s what happy path means. The time sink is all the error cases, ensuring that one of the transition in the system does not result in an unsatisfactory outcome. That’s why we read code. Because only there the correct and incorrect cases are clearly separated.
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That's a completely reasonable take. I wouldn't have any issue with a nuanced comment like that. My issue with your above comment is that it's a lot more arrogant than nuanced.
That's fair, I think my point is there's a nuanced theory behind my choice to be rude, which is essentially "you need to experiment more, be more open minded, really work at it, and then you'll see what others are seeing, it isn't impossible." It's like Dark Souls, nobody can beat it for you, or teach you how to use dodge rolls, you've gotta build that skill yourself, and blaming the tools won't help.
Why not just say that then, instead of being rude? I pretty firmly disagree with the idea that being rude is ever a useful way to convey information rather than intent. Content and tone are separate axes that you can calibrate independently, so what you're saying is never an excuse for how you say it. Being rude conveys emotion, not information, and you didn't really convey information in your comment other than "look at how amazing the stuff I do is", and that's not a particularly effective mechanism for getting people to see your point of view.
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It's not an issue of usual vs unusual, I'm saying the models are way better at writing and maintaining django or react code bases than your own hand rolled architecture that you define in some docs that it has to learn and keep in context. All of the models do an amazing job making local edits and working in small greenfield projects but once you get to full production systems with close to a million lines things sta…
At 600k lines of Rust, not finding those issues yet. You can search for different versions of same concepts, I mean you need to refactor a lot anyway.
And the reason LLMs tend to produce such insanely large codebases is partially what the comment you're replying to explained, they duplicate everything all over the place.
The fact that the author addresses the young makes me feel uncomfortable. Gen-Z knows that currently almost all blog posts have an ulterior motive and are worded in a way that claims to be in their best interests.
Do not listen to well-known programmers who use their non-AI earned fame to steer you into the unknown future.
The AI stock market is already collapsing as we speak and these recommendations aren't worth much.
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I do highly unusual, off the beaten path projects with AI. For instance, a game engine written entirely in LuaJIT, but allocating almost all data structures using CFFI, a very unusual, custom object-orientation DSL I designed myself, and that uses SDL3's SDL_gpu library to do all rendering, a ton of GLSL 4.6 compute shaders cross compiled to SPIR-V and Metal (which constraints what GLSL can be written), and is a hybr…
things you described are not "highly unusual" in the way gp comment is describing. you are just remixing bunch of stuff. Thats the type of thing ai is really good at.
Though it's still cheating with a compatibility layer, I don't think claude touched any HolyC.
I highly respect Antirez, and as an Italian fellow programmer, for me, he's like a legend! Although reading this article makes me quite sad; I consider myself an average, mediocre programmer, but I enjoy writing code since it's a way to build the mental model of a problem and to solve it iteratively. I obviously use agents and all the new fancy tools, but if a great programmer like Antirez says that it's over, I thin…
... I believe many programmers at this point have less impact they could have because they look at the code.
... I believe many programmers at this point have less impact they could have because they look at the code. I think my strength is now more in my ability as a mathematician and a writer than as a programmer. Being able to write detailed specs and doing QA by testing is far more productive than looking at code.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. All of us have half a dozen of what appear to be good ideas every. Execution matters, testing and sanity checking matters, actual engagement with users and iteration matters. Sure, we're reducing the cost of idea -> prototype to near zero (well, as long as tokens are free or nearly free), but that just means we now have mountains of throw away code, within which there may a gem or two. Nothi…
> Sure, we're reducing the cost of idea -> prototype to near zero (well, as long as tokens are free or nearly free), but that just means we now have mountains of throw away code, within which there may a gem or two. This doesn't strike me as wrong, but where the rubber meets the road. Let me give you an example. My superior with close to zero programming skills, sat down with Claude and "wrote" a Django backend with…
How? The point of Fable (vs. Mythos) is that it has extreme guardrails against doing e. g. security work, even mentioning "security" or "vulnerability" in the prompt will shut it down.